Defrocked priest who moved to Reno scheduled to appear in Denver court for fondling self on airplane

4:29 PM,
Dec. 7, 2012

Daniel Drinan is pictured in this 2005. file photo.

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Jaclyn O?Malley
jomalley@rgj.com

A defrocked priest who moved to Reno and briefly ran a halfway house for parolees, could be pleading guilty Monday in federal court in Denver related to masturbating on a commercial air flight while viewing pornography on his lap top.

Daniel Drinan is expected to appear for an arraignment Monday on a misdemeanor charge of crimes aboard an airplane for exposing his genitals to crew members of a Southwest Airlines that left the Baltimore-Washington International Airport headed to Denver on Sept. 8.

The hearing could turn into a guilty plea and subsequent sentencing, court documents show. The ...